WaPo: DOZENS OF ASSISTED-LIVING RESIDENTS DIED AFTER WANDERING AWAY UNNOTICED

[ZERTErYNOthe]

This article from Washington Post is linked below without paywall. I am fortunate that my father is in a secure memory care facility. Not everyone is is lucky. This is a heartbreaking.

https://wapo.st/3NBaBjG

DOZENS OF ASSISTED-LIVING RESIDENTS DIED AFTER WANDERING AWAY UNNOTICED

Since 2018, more than 2,000 people have wandered away from assisted-living and memory-care facilities unnoticed or been left unattended for hours outside. Nearly 100 have died, and state inspectors frequently found evidence of neglect.
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Memory Inc.

Patients with memory problems walk away from assisted-living facilities just about every day in America; many die. The Post examines a pattern of neglect in America’s booming assisted-living industry.

[Demovictory9]

1. Omg. Lock the doors. Put alerts on the doors

That said
.in my family..we twice had dementia suffering family members wander away

Got them back safely though

[keithbvadu2]

2. I got a friend a bracelet with our phone numbers on it.

She's not wandering... yet.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

3. The last time we visited my mom someone was trying to wander

The staff found the secure door wasn’t locking and it became all hands on deck trying to shoo the one lady away from the exit while they got maintenance in to fix it.

[choie]

4. Thank you for sharing this

Again institutions run by for profit entities fail with deadlly consequences